How can it be that four hours of loud performance accompanied by a text consisting of reciting trivial phone calls, can keep an audience spellbound?

Triggered by the performance No Dice by the Nature Theater of Oklahoma (USA), I examine the relation between strategies of reality and dramaturgy within the situation of performance.

Based on Hans-Thies Lehmann’s thoughts on the postdramatic theatre, supported by theory from Knut Ove Arntzen, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and others, I have tried to navigate in a landscape involving play, seriousness, emotions, perception, presence and interpretation.

For the analyses of No Dice I use an analytical-decriptive method. Based on my own experience, theory and a conversation with directors Kelly Copper og Pavol Liska, No Dice is unfolded through the analysis, before I return to my initial questions in the final chapter, concluding that strategies of reality act as producers of presence in postdramatic theatre.